Jungle Janes,

This year’s spring/summer designers have gone back to their roots by having ethnic and tribal culture teamed with fresh greens and thick browns to create another trend alert urban jungle!

I have to say that the safari trend has been on the streets for quite some time but this year’s fashion shows have been a bit more creative however never staying too far away from those luxurious chocolate browns and camel colours. Our safari Jane’s are now more sophisticated and cultural in 2011.

Instead of the safari jackets and button up shirt dresses, safari has gone a bit more wilder and taking on more of an animal influence, leopard print and snakeskin have been given there rights back of being sexy and fun. Not everything is so earthy but still gives that natural look.

This season's safari is taking an entirely different angle, using more natural fabrics and textures. I adore Stella McCartney's take on the modern safari, be incorporating rope belts with simnple cut shorts which gives them such a more appealing look.

 

Stella McCartney 2011, D&G 2011, Hobbs 2011, Louis Vuitton 2011.



Safari now has a more desirable status than before, corest backs and fringing detailing adds a fierce 'wild thing' attitude to the clothing. Gold, heavily encrusted with animal influenced jewllery and accessories can give more glamour to your outfit. 

  

2011 safari also has a more tailored and soft lined edge, take Louis Vuittons giraffe suit the clean cut lines and sheer fabric gives what should be a bizare affair a cutural classic. Hobbs works wonders on this military safari suit, it looks so effortless and chic.

So whether you want to bring out your inner wild child by teaming leather with fresh green shirts and snakeskin heels or if your choice be the natural earthy colours of camel and grey trousers and sweaters. You have to agree safari seems now more interesting than before.

That Indie Looks own take on the Jungle Janes most needed nesscessities:



Inspire me

I have a terrible desire to be inspired! I have many a thought in my head about life in the future but nothing is really making me cling on to for dearlife, You know that situation?

I have decided to not decide on writing a plan for the furture as this never goes forthright, but now i'm kind of left myself in an awkward limbo!

As if by magic i have just had a young fellow walk in bearing a gift, a gift which excites me! '50 years of everyday fashion' a genorous gift by the one, of course Angela. I think i need to get my head down in this book and take every possible speckle of information in which it bears into my tiny brain!

Adios Amigos,

Long Time No See!

Oh golly, i have seemed to have stepped off the bandwagon at lazy town! I told myself i wouldnt but i have, i'm not going to panic i've jumped on at the nearest possible convenience and i have arrived, i'm back on schedule.

Today is possible one of the loveliest days in the history's of all thursdays. Firstly having put on my summer car playlist on on the way to work, then walking to work and buying Tropicana and now munching on fruit salad with the internet in full working order in the shop, Awesome!

I have, (i can actually say this) been rather busy. I had my last sewing class last night, which is sad but we are going to get together next week so thats fine, i'm totally in denial that it's finished when am i ever going to make owls now!

I am next week however on a begining to dressmaking evening which i am totally looking forward to. Also i have been writting articles for http://www.unexposedfashion.com/ which has been one of my highlights of the month, you should check it out!

All i need know to make this day super special, is a pint in a beer garden, this is only due to the people coming into the shop saying ' shall we go to the beer garden and have a glass of wine' obviously may take on having a beer in a beer garden works much better, wine is far to feminine.

Right now off to check what i have been missing out on. Laters

January Debate

I have decided after a serious discussion with my fellow companion, who also loves all things old and rusty, to have debates on subjects that come up now and again that can develop many a debate.

I decided for the January edition to talk about the idea of style, trend, fashion or whatever it's called nowadays:

Vintage vs Vintage Inspired

It's no question that vintage clothing stores are hot property right now with one propping up in every town
For me it's all about the original key pieces. I would rather buy a original Vintage item than a make shift inspired piece. I do agree that buying vintage comes with it's ups and downs; for example some items need a little care & attention but that's not the end of the world pop, nothing a needle and thread can't fix. I love the feeling of someone coming up to me and asking 'where did you get that Aryan jumper from?' and my reply being from a vintage shop ah thank you only £4! They then look in disgust as the one there wearing is from one of the many mainstream shops on the high street cosing 15 times more than mine.

A great feeling of satisfaction

I do admit that the high street does it well, but its not the original which you can still buy! I have a lot of admiration for those independent shops trying to get a foot in the door, especially when the street there on is filled to the brim of all things reproduced for the throw away society we live today.
I'm not saying that you should change what you buy/wear but just to give a little love to those charity shops and vintage shops around. God I'm no dictator.

Today i am wearing: Skirt, cardigan, boots, scarf & bag from vintage shops. Genius!

I would love to hear your views on the January Debate (look at me thinking I've gone all political, but it is just a light debate on the matter)

So what's it to be originality or copycat?

Kayleigh
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Vintage A Cycle Of Life

Vintage fashion a conventional subject like any other that's talked about again and again, like when you go to your grandparents and your granddad repeats the same story over and over or when you go down the pub and listen to the same banter from the locals or when its Christmas and you always get the reincarnation of ‘My Family’ on the TV. (Well sort of). A constant reference to the past being brought up again and again.

Vintage fashion, however over rated or hyped up you may find it; it is a good example of originality being recycled (in a good way). I don’t know if it is just me or not but as a British citizen I always find that Britain has a tradition to always go back to the past, either in politics, society, music and even fashion, to name a few.

The 21st century has seen an increase in vintage franchise popping up all over the place with more industries, groups and people being more involved in creating vintage inspired shops, music clothes ect.. This shows the ever so popular franchise of vintage fashion being brought together all over the world.

With fashion from the named eras we now see in our own 21st century designers the relation in designs of the present. From the 2010 fall seen a number of decades inspired clothing, that of the 40’s, right through to the 90’s. Fashion being one of the pinnacles of the past that has gone through generations and been recycled into a more modern alternative.

Fashion before hand has always had a significant meaning or reason for such a change. Take for example the 1940’s where women were bringing industry into a iconic fashion statement through the war time era, to the swinging 60’s where London was on the edge of a revolution and was fast becoming one of the worlds leading fashion involved cities, to the not so long ago 1980’s where depression left the streets of Britain there own unique style, to the power dressing of the working woman. Nowadays we do have life changing moments in life but never to change the face of fashion as much as the past has.

You can now see the influence through such designers like: Prada, Moschino, Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton & Mui Mui, to name a few. How they have taken the originality of vintage clothes and put there own stamp on it to create an alternative for the modern woman today. It also shows how powerful and iconic the moments were in pacific eras to keep the cycle going.

I was thinking of this today as a woman came into the shop which is, I have to admit a vintage clothes shop and was in awe of how many vintage shops were growing and how many people were passionate about it. She said to me‘ God I used to have a Laura Ashley dress just like this years ago, isn’t it funny how it all comes back around’. That’s the point the originality of such iconic past moments will constantly be recreated for numbers of years.